Spitfire Wingman from Tennessee my love affair with flight by Col. James R. Haun

SPITFIRE WINGMAN is the whole-life memoir of USAF Col. Jim Haun, who flew nearly every US military aircraft from 1939 to 1965, including fighters, bombers, giant cargo ships, and the T-33 jet trainer. He flew Spitfires over England and France, commanded a squadron through the Berlin Airlift, was CO of th Presidential Air Fleet in Washington D.C., and became Chief Pilot of the Military Air Transport Service. After retirement he built a single-seat biplane in his garage -- meanwhile teaching hundreds to fly, including one who became an instructor in the supersonic Blackbird.